International Research Society for Children’s Literature

Doctoral Scholarship at Dublin City University
Email: jennifer.mooney@dcu.ie and keith.osullivan@dcu.ie
Website: www.dcu.ie/english/chil...
DCU is advertising a four-year doctoral scholarship and seeking research proposals that draw upon the university’s special collections

#CFP: 1st International Symposium on Children’s Literature and Educational Research (CHEDAR)
Online
21-23 April 2026
Deadline: 25 March 2026
Website: cedarsempozyum.com/about/

Online Launch Event to celebrate the publication of the Special Section 'Reflecting on “The Teen Whisperer”: Twenty Years of John Green', edited by Dr. Jennifer Gouck
International Journal of Young Adult Literature
7-8pm GMT 3rd March 2026
Registration: forms.office.com/e/PU3yX9BpdN

#CFP: Children’s and Young Adult Literature Research – Then, Now, and in the Future
Barnboken: Journal of Children’s Literature Research
Deadline: 31 May 2026
barnboken.net/index.php/cl...

#CFP: Translational Convergences and Divergences in the Global Children’s Literature
Special Issue for Children's Literature in Education
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Email: cletranslations2027@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...

#CFP: Guaranteed ChLA Session at MLA 2027 conference in Los Angeles: “Postcolonial Fantasy for Young People”
Los Angeles
7-10 January 2027
Deadline: 1 March 2026
Email: amadan@ksu.edu

Presentation of the book "Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland" by Elena Emma Sottilotta
Stockholm University
18 February 2026
4 pm CET
www.su.se/english/divi...
To receive the Zoom link write to anna.finozzi@su.se

Online Talk: "Crossing Boundaries: In Search of a New Migration Identity. Contemporary Polish Young Adult Narratives from the Perspective of Transnational Families" by Dorota Michułka
University of Wrocław
24 February 2026 18:00 CET
Register here forms.office.com/e/ixWduqgvgJ

#CFP: 28th Biennial Congress of @irscl.bsky.social
(IRSCL 2027):
“Embracing Bibliodiversity: Researching Children’s Literature in the 21st Century”
University of São Paulo, Brazil
July 24–28, 2027
Submission period: 1 September to 1 December 2026
irscl2027.org

#CFP: "The Multimedia Puppet: Pinocchio in Comics" International Symposium
National Carlo Collodi Foundation in collaboration with the Chapman University and The University of Iowa
Collodi (Pistoia, Italia), July 11, 2026
Deadline: 15 February 2026
fondazione@pinocchio.it

#CFP: 4th Annual CBCP Postgraduate Conference
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing at the University of Reading, UK
Tuesday, 19th May 2026
Deadline: Monday 23 February 2026
Email: cbcp@reading.ac.uk
Website: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

Online seminar: From Lecture Halls to City Hall: How English Opens Unexpected Doors
Mateusz Marecki
Date: 9 February 2026
Time: 18:00 (CET time)
Link: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3409649...

#CFP: People in Publishing: Diversity, Leadership and Publishing’s Futures
University of Reading, UK
Monday 29th June 2026
Deadline: Monday 2nd March 2026
Email: cbcp@reading.ac.uk
Website: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

Online seminar:
Cross-dressing, cross-being: Le rappresentazioni gender non-conforming negli albi illustrati dal catalogo Leggere Senza Stereotipi
ICONICs
Dalila Forni & Sara Marin
4 February 2026
17:00–18:00 (CET time)
To get the link, write to: stayiconics@gmail.com

#CFP: 2026 ANILIJ International Congress: Literatura Infantil y Juvenil y Territorio. Desde las Literaturas Regionales al Canon Nacional y Universal
University of La Laguna, Spain
21-23 October 2026
Deadline: 1 April 2026
xvcongresodeanilij@gmail.com
All papers must be in Spanish

#CFP: COMMUNITY
Cambridge Journal of Literary Translation
Deadline: 10 April 2026
Email: CJLTjournal@gmail.com
Website: cjltjournal.wixsite.com/cjlt/issues

#CFP: Beyond ‘bringing books and children together’: Critical approaches to reading promotion and literacy in Latin America
Special Issue of The Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies
Deadline: 30 January 2026
Email: criticalreadingcfp@gmail.com
research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

The registration for the free online conference "Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship, and Literature for Young People" is now open.
The conference (11-13 February 2026) is hosted by the University of Münster.
To register and read the program: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/

#CFP: Bending the Rules: Social Radicalism, Wanderlust, and Utopianism in Children’s and YA Literature
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
10 June 2026
Deadline: 20 February 2026
Email: radicalchildrensliterature@proton.me

#CFP: seminar Children’s Literature and Translation Studies (CLTS) 2026
Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
in cooperation with Stockholm University and the University of Wrocław
August 26–28, 2026
Deadline: 31 January 2026
Email: clts@upol.cz
Website: clts.upol.cz

Hybrid webinar: Let’s Talk Trash: Waste and Culture
by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Irena Barbara Kalla, and Aleksandra Markiewicz
EDU-CLIMA team, working under the auspices of the Arqus European University Alliance
Date: 21 January 2026 4:00 pm (CET)
Link: uni-graz.zoom.us/j/6480428340...

Online Talk: "Hidden in Plain Sight: Writing Women into History" by Dr. Devika Rangachari
Association for Children's Literature in South Asia
17th January 2026
8 p.m. IST
To register, scan the QR Code on the poster or follow this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
aclisa.in/2025/12/22/a...

#CFP: The Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) Conference
Children’s Literature in a Time of Crisis
Deakin University, Waterfront Campus, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
18 - 20 November 2026
Deadline: 27 February 2026
Email: aclar2026@gmail.com

#CFP: SLIDING, a digital magazine for children’s literature, media and culture-related content from a critical, democratic and inclusive perspective.
Call for Contributions for 2026-1
For more information: slidingmagazine.com/external-sub...

Online Talk: “Frankenstein, Astro Boy, and the Genealogy of the Narrative of Posthuman Adolescence" by Prof. Rick Gooding
University of Wrocław
13 January 2026 19:00 CET
Please register using this link: forms.office.com/e/PKqWNiK0vG... or scan the QR code on the poster

#CFP: Interdisciplinary Pathways into Italian Children’s Studies
Organised by the ICONICs Collective
AAIS - American Association for Italian Studies 2026
University of Sassari, Italy
3-5 June 2026
Deadline: January 15, 2026
stayiconics@gmail.com
aais.italianstudies.net/site_page.cf...

#CFP: APPARATUS- The Role of Technology in Illustration
Journal of Illustration (Volume 14, 2027)
Deadline: 26th of January 2026
Website: www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-i...